Honolulu Record, August 19, 1948, vol. 1 no. 2, p. 6

FBI-108,000,000 Fingerprints

The FBI has the largest single collection of fingerprints in the world. .

On file in the identification Division of the FBI in Washington are more than 108,000,000 finger­print cards. These represent fingerprints of approximately 72,500,000 persons.

The file is divided into two groupings—criminal and non-criminal. The former represents 7,500,000 persons and the latter, 65,000,000.